Climate impact assessment

Type of project: Project work with the non-economic and non-profit sector - Student innovative projects for social benefit 2016-2020 for the 2018/19 academic year (ŠIPK)

Project title: Climate impact assessment

Project team:

• Students: Anja Magdič, Žaklin Butinar, Eva Mikelj, Timotej Sajko, Daška Levstik, Hana Palčič Vilfan, Ajda Jančar, Eva Bezek, Veronika Bastl, and Jan Tomšič
• Educational mentor: doc. dr. Maša Kovič Dine
• Expert collaborator: mag. Senka Šifkovič Vrbica

Financers:

In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its latest report on the effects of global warming above 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial period. The report warns of serious dangers if countries do not take measures to limit global warming. At the same time, the report shows a clear path to preventing catastrophic climate change. Among other things, the IPCC emphasized that it is crucial to account for the activities under assessment's climate impacts in strategic environmental impact assessments. Despite this warning, international law, European law, and national law do not yet contain sufficiently stringent requirements for the inclusion of climate impact assessments in environmental impact assessments. The criteria for assessing the climate impact of plans and specific projects are either nonexistent or very vague. This means that this issue remains unaddressed whenever an operating permit is issued for any significant industrial intervention. The European guidelines on integrating climate aspects into environmental impact assessment reports address this issue in part. Still, these guidelines are too general and are not applied in practice, or the authors of the assessments merely describe the impacts in general terms without clear conclusions on the extent to which the plan or project is acceptable or not based on its climate impacts.

With this project, we wanted to prepare a coherent draft of recommendations to be taken into account in strategic environmental impact assessments and to present them to today's youth through workshops. Strategic environmental impact assessments are the most critical factor in changing how climate change and its consequences for young people are addressed, as they enable us to develop plans and programs to assess the impact on the climate in which today's young people and future generations will live.

Strategic climate impact assessment and implementation in the Republic of Slovenia - Project study

Climate impact assessment - Proposals for improving the implementation of climate impact assessment within the framework of strategic environmental impact assessment

I'm not contributing to climate change, am I? - Workshop for implementation in secondary school classes, 8th and 9th grade elementary school classes, or within the framework of non-governmental organizations and interested individuals